Planned railway lines on Thy

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Planned railway lines on Thy, drawn in green

The planned railway lines on Thy were three branch lines in the historical landscape of Thy , the western part of the Danish island Vendsyssel-Thy (North Jutian Island), which were decided by various railway laws, but never came to fruition. All projects were planned as private railways , where the Danish state would have assumed half of the construction costs.

history

As in many other countries, numerous railway lines were planned in Denmark in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . For various reasons, many places wanted to be “connected to the big world” via the railroad . Often, however, mostly due to a lack of money or an unconvincing operating concept, the planning was not carried out. Thy was already well developed in 1882 by the Thisted – Struer (Thybanen) railway on the west coast almost in a north-south direction and by the Thisted – Fjerritslev railway , which opened in 1904, to the east .

In addition, there were three railway lines on Thy, which were approved by railway laws but never built. They had no direct connection with each other, but were branch lines of the lines between Struer and Thisted and between Thisted and Fjerritslev .

Railway line Hurup – Vestervig – Agger

The Hurup – Vestervig – Agger railway line was included in the first major railway law of May 8, 1894 and was one of the few projects of the law that was not implemented. The following stations should be built on the route, which is around 13 kilometers long:

Sjørring – Nørre Vorupør railway line

The Sjørring – Nørre Vorupør railway was included in the Railway Act of May 27, 1908 . The following stations were to be built along the 16-kilometer route:

Nors – Hanstholm railway line

In 1917 the Rigsdag decided to build a fishing port in Hanstholm and to connect it to the railway network with a railway line. The branch line from the Thisted – Fjerritslev railway from Nors to Hanstholm was decided by the Railway Act of March 31, 1917 . The following stations were to be built along the 17-kilometer route:

The possibility of a direct state railway line to Hanstholm by extending the line from Fjerritslev by bypassing Thisted was also examined. In 1920 difficulties arose during the construction of the port, so that the entire project almost came to a standstill.

During the German occupation in Denmark there were plans to build a narrow-gauge railway Nors – Hanstholm to transport material to the large fortifications of the Wehrmacht in Hanstholm. Ultimately, a concrete road was built for it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mogens Duus: Med toget til og Glyngøre Nykøbing Mors . Banebøger, 2009, ISBN 978-87-91434-21-1 , p. 30-39 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Smalsporsbaner i Nordjylland. Hanstholm fæstningens bane. In: Nordjyllands jernbaner. Retrieved July 16, 2020 (Danish).

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